Editing Hokkaido (section)

===Population===
[[File:SapporoCity Skylines2020.jpg|thumb|Skyline of Sapporo city, the most populous city in Hokkaido and the 5th most populous city in Japan]]
[[File:Hokkaido prefecture population pyramid in 2020.svg|thumb|290x290px|Hokkaido prefecture population pyramid in 2020]]
{{historical populations|13=1721|14=15,615|15=1750|16=21,807|17=1786|18=26,310|19=1798|20=28,711|21=1822|22=61,948|23=1834|24=67,862|25=1846|26=70,887|27=1873|28=123,668
|29=1890|30=414,430|31=1903|32=1,089,503|33=1920|34=2,359,183|35=1930|36=2,812,335|37=1940|38=3,272,718|39=1950|40=4,295,567|41=1960|42=5,039,206|43=1970|44=5,184,287|45=1980|46=5,575,989|47=1990|48=5,643,647|49=2000|50=5,683,062|51=2010|52=5,506,419|53=2020|54=5,281,297|percentages=pagr|footnote=source:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stat.go.jp/english/index.html |title=Statistics Bureau of Japan |access-date=2019-07-21 |archive-date=2020-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108132422/http://www.stat.go.jp/english/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[[Demographic history of Japan before the Meiji Restoration|Hokkaidō Population during Tokugawa Shogun]]</ref>{{Circular reference|date=August 2020}}}}

Hokkaidō has the third-largest population of Japan's five main islands, with 5,111,691 people {{as of|2023|lc=on}}.<ref name="main-islands-japan"/><ref name="JPCensus">{{cite web|url= http://www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/jichi_gyousei/c-gyousei/daityo/index.html|title= 総務省｜住基ネット|work= soumu.go.jp|access-date= 2019-09-15|archive-date= 2021-02-24|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210224144613/https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_sosiki/jichi_gyousei/c-gyousei/daityo/index.html|url-status= live}}</ref> It has the lowest population density in Japan, with just {{convert|61|PD/km2}}. Hokkaidō ranks 21st in [[List of islands by population|population]] among the world's islands. Major cities include [[Sapporo]] and [[Asahikawa]] in the central region, and the port of [[Hakodate]] facing [[Honshu]] in the south. Sapporo is Hokkaidō's largest city and the fifth-largest in Japan. It had a population of 1,959,750 {{as of|2023|July|31|lc=on}} and a population density of {{convert|1,748|PD/km2|abbr=on}}.

{| class="wikitable"
|- class="hintergrundfarbe6"
! City''(-[[Cities of Japan|shi]])''
! Inhabitants<br /><small>{{As of|2023|July|31|df=US|bare=yes}}</small>
|-
| [[Sapporo]]
| style="text-align:right;"|1,959,750
|-
| [[Asahikawa]]
| style="text-align:right;"|321,906
|-
| [[Hakodate]]
| style="text-align:right;"|241,747
|-
| [[Kushiro]]
| style="text-align:right;"|158,741
|-
| [[Tomakomai]]
| style="text-align:right;"|167,372
|-
| [[Obihiro]]
| style="text-align:right;"|163,084
|-
| [[Otaru]]
| style="text-align:right;"|107,432
|-
| [[Kitami]]
| style="text-align:right;"|112,185
|-
| [[Ebetsu]]
| style="text-align:right;"|118,764
|-
| [[Muroran]]
| style="text-align:right;"|77,173
|-
| [[Iwamizawa]]
| style="text-align:right;"|75,949
|-
| [[Chitose, Hokkaido|Chitose]]
| style="text-align:right;"|98,047
|-
| [[Eniwa, Hokkaido|Eniwa]]
| style="text-align:right;"|70,278
|}